putterとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

American professional golfer Eric Axley with a putter (etymology 3, sense 1)

Alteration of potter.

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: pŭt'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
• Hyphenation: put‧ter

動詞

putter (三人称単数 現在形 putters, 現在分詞 puttering, 過去形および過去分詞形 puttered)

1. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, OCLC 1004950748, OL 5535161W, pages 304–305:

     We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.

語源 2

put +‎ -er.

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: po͝ot'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈpʊtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpʊtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
• Hyphenation: putt‧er

名詞

putter (複数形 putters)

1. One who puts or places.
   • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life (page 39)

     He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.

2. A shot-putter.
3. (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.

派生語

• (one who puts または places): shot-putter

語源 3

putt +‎ -er

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: pŭt'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
• Hyphenation: putt‧er

名詞

putter (複数形 putters)

1. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
2. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.

語源 4

Onomatopoeic.

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: pŭt'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
• Hyphenation: put‧ter

動詞

putter (三人称単数 現在形 putters, 現在分詞 puttering, 過去形および過去分詞形 puttered)

1. (intransitive) To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.
   • 2010, Pat Kelleher, “‘Some Corner of a Foreign Field …’”, in Black Hand Gang (No Man’s World), Osney Mead, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Abaddon Books, →ISBN:

     By the time the engine had puttered and died Atkins and some of the others were out of the trenches and walking towards this new wonder machine.

   • 2010 June 14, Dan Newton, The Wildcat, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     Timmy's dad drove an old blue truck that puttered and sputtered to get to the top of the mountain, that led to the valley, where … the WILDCAT waited.

   • 2017 March, Jennifer S. Holland, “For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival”, in National Geographic‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 May 2017:

     As I reluctantly left Tangkoko for the last time, bumping along the trail on a motorbike, Raoul, the alpha male who had smacked my leg, wandered out from among the trees. He was alone, and after I puttered by, I glanced back to see him swagger into the middle of the path to watch me go.

Further reading

• putter on Wikipedia.
• putter (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Pruett